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Nathaniel
Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. His father was a sea captain
and descendent of John Hawthorne, one of the judges in the Salem
witchcraft trials of 1692. He died when the young Nathaniel was four
year old. Hawthorne grew up in seclusion with his widowed mother - and
for the rest of her life they relied on each other for emotional solace.
Between the years 1825 and 1836 Hawthorne worked as a writer and
contributor to periodicals. He married in 1842 Sophia Peabody, an active
participant in the Transcendentalist movement, and settled with her in
Concord. A growing family and mounting debts compelled their return to
Salem. Hawthorne was unable to earn a living as a writer and in 1846 he
was appointed surveyor of the Port of Salem, where he worked for three
years. Hawthorne died at Plymouth, New Hampshire, on May 18th,
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THE
SCARLET LETTER
Drama
The main action of The
Scarlet Letter, the illicit love affair of Hester Prynne with the
Reverend Arhur Dimmesdale and the birth of their child Pearl, takes
place before the book opens. In Puritan New England, Hester, the mother
of an illegitimate child, wears the scarlet A (for adulteress, named in
the book by this initial) for years rather than reveal that her lover
was the saintly young village minister. Her husband, Roger
Chillingworth, proceeds to torment the guiltstricken man, who confesses
his adultery before dying in Hester's arms. Hester plans to take her
daughter Pearl to Europe to begin a new life.
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